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Blech

Hmm, this morning I formatted my iPod for Mac because it was behaving very badly, only allowing about 600MB available memory (advertised as 1GB ) and somehow became read-only on my computer so that I couldn’t delete the half-transfered songs. This probably means I won’t get it working in Linux again until I format it [...]

Widgets for Linux

ADesklets are widgets that can be used in Linux using the X-windows system.
They are cute and easily customisable. This article has a nice description of how to install the calendar and weather desklets. I now have the weather forecast one up and running and configured to the way I like it. I’ve had to configure [...]

Grip it

I gave up on Sound Juicer. Despite it’s funky logo and the ease and accuracy with which it detected the CD information, I eventually got it to rip songs so that Rhythmbox could import them but the files didn’t have the ID3 data (title, artist etc). So I used Grip. Grip is highly customisable and [...]

 

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